Three stand accused of stealing a plastic penguin from an art installation in Prague.

Prague police said on Tuesday that they had arrested three foreigners and charged them with stealing a penguin sculpture from Prague’s central Museum Kampa. The yellow plastic sculpture was one of an identical series perched on a stone wall outside the museum on the Vltava river and illuminated at night.

Three foreigners? Vague description.

The thieves had to get past a two-meter high fence to snatch the penguin, police said. Hulan added the financial damage to the museum totaled Kč 70,000. “It only took the police four days to apprehend the criminals,” the police boasted on their website.

The accused were reported to be a Russian, a Spanish speaker and a French speaker, all in their 20s.

Perhaps the Spanish speaker and French speaker refused to reveal their nationality. Or perhaps the Czechs are trying to make the point that if you speak Russian, then you are from Russia. Spanish and French…they’ll give you the benefit of the doubt — could be from anywhere. The Czech dislike of Russians could thus be similar to the American security analysts who find software that runs in Chinese and call that proof enough to say there’s a connection to China.